WRITER IN RESIDENCE AT OPEN BOOK IN APRILI’m pleased to be Open Book’s April Writer in Residence, where I’ll publish sixteen posts about poetry and the writing process during April 2017.

MANY GENDERED MOTHERS ESSAY – LIBBY SCHEIERMy essay on the late poet Libby Scheier was published on the many gendered mothers blog, a project that publishes short essays by writers about the women, trans* and non-binary writers who influenced them.

AT THE DESK WITH OPEN BOOK
I wrote about my office space and process for Open Book in their At the Desk Series.

IFOA POETRY NOW – 5 QUESTIONSI answer five questions about poetry, in lead up to the Poetry NOW event at Harbourfront Centre.

HUNTER STREET BOOKS CURATED SHELFI was one of the authors chosen to curate a shelf of my book recommendations at Peterborough’s Hunter Street Books, owned by writer Michelle Berry. I chose the novel Ladivine by Marie Ndiaye, poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, memoir hybrid The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, and the novel The Door by Magda Szabo.

On the Line Poetry Podcast on Kim Hyesoon
In September 2016, I had the honour and pleasure of participating in the poetry podcast On the Line, about the incredible South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon. You can listen to it on the Rusty Toque website here.

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